[RHCE] Meeting 4 (LAB) tonight.

[sholton]

Just a reminder, the RHCE study meets tonight at 7:00
This is a lab session covering installs, so if you have 
a sacrifical system you can spare, bring it along.

Jason will make available a server, network, etc so all
you really need is a spare CPU and hard disk.

Here's some typical install situations you should be
familiar with: If you're not confident of your ability 
to perform, find someone who can show you how to do it 
and ask for help.

1. The box has a CD drive, but the BIOS cannot be set to
   boot from it.
   - Know how to create a boot floppy using both RAWRITE
     and dd

2. The box has no CD drive, but the files from the CDROMs
   have been copied to a volume on the hard disk.
   - Know how to do an install from a local hard disk.

3. The box has a CD drive, but it's a "vintage" model
   (SoundBlasterPro) which is not recognized as an ATAPI drive. 
   - Know how to install when the CDROM isn't recognized.
   - Know how to use a driver disk to initialize hardware
     which is not recognized by Red Hat out of the box.

4. The box has no CD drive, but it does have a network
   card.
   - Know how to net install from a NFS volume with the
     files.
   - Know how to net install with FTP.
   - Know how to net install from HTTP.

5. The box has a Windows install, which must be preserved.
   - Know how to create a dual boot setup.
   - Understand the boot loaders:
     - LILO
     - GRUB
    
6. The box needs a Red Hat Linux install, and the
   configuration requires some of the volumes to be software RAID.
   - Know how to use Disk Druid to setup a software RAID
     system.
   - Understand the different RAID levels:
     - RAID 0 : Striping - performance only.
     - RAID 1 : Mirroring - survives the loss of all but
                the last mirror.
     - RAID 5 : Parity Striping - best disk space usage.

7. You are in a maze of a thousand twisty Red Hat Installs,
   all alike.
   - Know how to automate the install using Kickstart.
   - Know how to create a KickStart file.
   - Know how to run an install using a kichstart disk.

See you all there.

-- 
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you can only choose where it won't.

sholton@mindspring.com